R Observatory: Metrics for BASS version 1.3.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

BASS

1.3.1

Bayesian Adaptive Spline Surfaces

2packages dependsuggested by 1

5.5Kdownloads / year

26.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Devin FrancomCRAN page ↗

Bayesian fitting and sensitivity analysis methods for adaptive spline surfaces described in doi:10.18637/jss.v094.i08. Built to handle continuous and categorical inputs as well as functional or scalar output. An extension of the methodology in Denison, Mallick and Smith (1998) doi:10.1023/A:1008824606259.

Changes in 1.3.1

vignette now static to decrease CRAN burden
other CRAN changes

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("BASS", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-bass

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-BASS

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-BASS

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.5 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.3.1

READMEYes · 152 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.3.1Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 15
Examples that run: 36%4 run in a plain check · 7 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

BASS_vignette PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

5.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,189 · ~15/day · ~455/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

66930 days

1.6K90 days

5.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on138 r2u34 autocran91 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing BASS adds 8 packages (6 with compiled code, 6.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: deSolve 1.9 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppArmadillo 1.0 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

truncdist hypergeo

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

R.rsp testthatparallel

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

mvBayes GBASS

Suggests, most downloaded first

impala

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Devin Francom

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2016)

Kellin Rumsey

Author · added in 1.3.1

Bruno Sanso

Thesis advisor

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Agner Fog

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.2.2

Releases (6)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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1.3.1Latest
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2023-07-04 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
calibrate.bassBasis
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-06-23
policy violation On Internet access, to archive.ics.uci.edu in vignette
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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2020-09-07
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archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-08-31
check issues were not corrected in time
1.2.0
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2020-05-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
bassBasis, bassPCA, sobolBasis
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-12-16
Total releases: 6 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 3.1 MB

Appears in task views

Bayesian Inference

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("BASS")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.18637/jss.v094.i08.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for BASS version 1.3.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-17, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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